For atheists!Can you honestly tell me that when something horrible happened to you or you wanted?

Question

something really bad,you never asked God to help you?

Answer 1

I can honestly tell you I have wholeheartedly WISHED that there was a higher, divine being, who was looking after the whole she-bang. But sadly, I don't believe there is. I can totally understand why people would want to believe in a God - it must be an amazingly comforting thing - but I think we're on our own. The only good thing about being in my position is I believe that human beings have to take responsibility for everything they do. I don't feel I was born a sinner, but I have certainly committed sins, and I feel I should be the one to pay for them. Not some innocent man 2000 years ago.

Answer 2

Yes. I don't believe in God. Period. End of story. I believe in science. God does not exist. Horrible things happening does not change that. The bible is like any other work of fiction. When bad things happen I don't ask for help from Gandalf and Frodo Baggins either because they are fictional characters in a book.

I know it's hard for you to understand and impossible for you to accept but atheists don't believe in God at all under any circumstances.

Answer 3

I would say that for most atheists they have asked God for help. Something that, according to the Bible, God is supposed to give if we ask it of him. However, help doesn't always come and to some this can be seen as proof that God doesn't exist. There was a point in my life when I considered myself an atheist and while I no longer think of myself as that term, atheism makes far more sense to me than most (if not all) religions.

Answer 4

No I don't believe in a god so it wouldn't be very helpful, I tend to try to remain as calm as I can and find my way through, if I can't do anything presently that's useful I opt to do nothing until some time has passed and the situation changes as it inevitably must. I find time is a great healer..all things pass...patience perhaps is my best virtue.

Answer 5

Honestly...? OK, I'll tell you. I started using my brain (if you want to consider that something horrible), and realised that the bible is a story book written with little or no imagination. Plus I keep getting annoyed by christians who tell me that my life as a homosexual is sinful, or at least more sinful than theirs.

Answer 6

Honestly, no. I never have.

Is that really difficult to believe? I _don't believe_ in God! He doesn't just magically pop into my head in crises and then go away again.

No means no. Absolute.

I have never prayed to God for anything.

Answer 7

> Why doesn't God end all evil immediately?
To end evil God would have to
> destroy the cause of evil people. In His good plan for people (see
> below), it is therefore not good to end all evil immediately.
>
> Why doesn't God make people unable to cause suffering?
>
> To do that, God would have to take away our ability to choose. But
> choice free will is a good thing. In order to love, you must be able to
> choose to love. Forced love is not love. So to have a universe that
> included love,
>
> God had to make us with choice, which includes the choice not to love
> and that makes sin, evil, pain and suffering possible.
>
> Why does God allow natural disaster and disease?
>
> It is a part of a sinful world. God lowered the perfection of creation
> (from the perfect garden of Eden) to match the spiritual state of those
> who live here (Romans 8:20-22).
>
> God graciously has sustained people on this earth (allowing them to
> reproduce, to develop governments and systems to deal with the effects
> of sin).
>
> He has graciously sustained the fallen creation (providing sun and rain
> for food to sustain life
> But the natural effect of a fallen creation is that even good things can
> have evil byproducts (water can drown someone; gravity can kill someone;
> lightening can burn and kill).
>
>
> Why doesn't God stop evil acts that cause innocent people to suffer?
> Why doesn't God miraculously intervene to stop evil acts if He is
> all-loving and all-powerful?
>
>
> Why doesn't He catch the drunk driver's car that is going to crash into
> a bus? Why doesn't He deflect the murderer's bullets? The person asking
> doesn't actually want God to stop all their evil acts.
> They don't want to be invisibly gagged every time they're about to say
> something hurtful; they don't want to stub their toe when they try to
> kick the dog.
>
>
> They just think it would be good if God stopped certain evil acts or
> just the evil acts of others. But that would make life impossible. There
> would be no freedoms, no regularity and no personal responsibility.
>
>
> Why doesn't God let us choose to get out of this suffering?
>
>
> The answer is that He does. That is the
> gracious, loving response of God to the evil condition of this sinful
> world.
>
>
> A. God has provided for personal salvation =96 the promise of eternal
> life in heaven where there is no suffering (Revelation 21:4). One must
> simply put his trust in the payment for sin God provided through
> Christ's death on the cross (John 3:16-18; Acts 10:38-43: etc.).
>
>
> B. God has provided for the earth's redemption
> (Romans 8:18-23; 2 Peter 3:10,13; Revelation 21:1)
>
Your Friend In Christ...

Answer 8

I did when i was a christian. But even then i didnt ask for much, I was more thankfull for things. after a while instead of asking 'God' for things I would ask that he gives me the strength to do without it.
Now i do just fine without 'God'

Answer 9

I will say to you what religious people say to me, you will have to take in on FAITH that I don't ask God for anything because I don't ask imagined Deity's to help me anymore.I used to and got nowhere.Now I don't and get everywhere.

Answer 10

Went something like this:
"If you're up there, I have no idea WHICH one you are so here's the deal. I need a hand. If you care, nows the time to show me."

He didnt.